The Gate Theatre (gatetheatre.ie) is offering another one of their very solid classic novel adaptations for Christmas. This time it is a very literal bringing to the stage of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and this stars Tom Canton as their very dashing Heathcliff. (Sophie Gorman)

And contrary to what people who shun the crib in favour of more exotic locations may believe, the familiar does not become monotonous, even after many years. Just like a weathered copy of Wuthering Heights, picked up in the ‘80s, that I’ve read and re-read till the pages began to come loose. It now lies amongst other literary treasures in a glass-fronted case at home, the sight of which always makes me smile. Who says an inanimate object can’t be welcoming? (Enid Parker)